Ezra 10:14-16

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁴ Let our leaders represent the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each town, in order to avert the fierce anger of our God^(A) concerning^[a] this matter.” ¹⁵ Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this, with Meshullam^(B) and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

¹⁶ The exiles did what had been proposed. The priest Ezra selected men^[b] who were family heads, all identified by name, to represent^[c] their ancestral families.^[d] They convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter,